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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1972
Page
4
Wellston council discussions reveal water sewer losses likely leading to rate hikes and no action on a resolution to cooperate with Jackson County in a three year emergency ambulance pilot. A state review on lifting an earlier sewage taps ban is pending after a December order and delay in appeals.
City officials weighed ambulance funding options with the mayor projecting up to $000,000 for three years in many towns but Wellston could trim to about $800. The 14th Street bridge project expects $70,000 in state Title I funds with 445 feet of right of way. Council approved transferring $1,000 to curb and meter repairs and discussed city property rental at Lake Wellston. The finance chair outlined a simplified holiday pay ordinance for long service and sick or vacation leave. Solicitor Oths to draft final ordinance and contact the Ohio Pollution Control Board over a paint shop air pollution complaint.
Istanbul AP report says Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon is favored to succeed Patriarch Athenagoras I, who died at 59 after kidney failure. A meeting of 12 archbishops will set funeral plans and later elect the Ecumenical Patriarch, with Metropolitan Kallinikos also a candidate.
Law expands citizen access to file complaints with the EPA and creates a three member board of review to hear appeals. It absorbs duties from the State Water and Air Pollution Control boards and the Health Department while promising further action in pollution control.
Ohio turkey producers who market over 1 000 birds annually will vote on a proposed marketing program financed by an assessment of three cents per hundred pounds of live weight. Ballots go out Monday and must be returned by July 27. two voting thresholds determine passage.
Mrs James Miller 38 of Cheshire was killed when her car struck the Swan Creek Bridge north of Crown City in heavy fog. Her husband James 37 and daughter Terri Lynn 13 were injured and taken to Holzer Medical Center. Terri Lynn listed critical. Mrs Miller’ body to Waugh Halley Wood Funeral Home.
Keith A. Stevens of 1542 S High St reported his car stolen on Wednesday. He told Athens police the vehicle was parked on West State Street when taken and reported the theft at 7 30 p.m. on Thursday.
Syracuse residents Richard Duckworth and Agnes White with Emil and Danny Eynon visit Reed Eynon at Holzer Hospital Then attend the Citizens Band Radio Club jamboree at the fair grounds. Separate visit shows Mrs Clinton Pierce Tina Thelma Grueser with Mason families Paul and Jack Pierce Grueser. Don Cottrill returns home after Veterans Memorial Hospital stay.
A compendium of land transfers lists multiple parcels and acreages in Sutton Two Olive Two Middleport Salisbury Rutland and Columbia Two. Names include Sayre Seyre Pomeroy Campbell Hart Baer Ash Abbott Newell Barton Barton Brace Brace and several others with transfers to numerous grantees and spouses.
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